7–11 Jul 2014
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

CFD simulation and optimization of a 10K VM refrigerator

8 Jul 2014, 14:15
1h 45m
Poster presentation (105min) Tue-Af-Posters Session 1.2

Speaker

Prof. Junjie Wang (Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, TIPC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

Description

The VM refrigerator with power being supplied by liquid nitrogen shows great potential for development below 10K. The 2D axisymmetric model refers to actual geometry under oscillating flow conditions is carried out using FLUENT software. The coldest temperature, the pressure in three cavities, the temperature profile along the regenerator, and the overall cooling power are present. The simulation results show good agreement with available data. Then the regenerator between cold with middle cavity is optimize to obtain the coldest temperature, it is filled with stainless steel screens and lead shot. It is found that there exists the best ratio of stainless steel screens and lead in the same length regenerator.

Primary author

Mr Changzhao Pan (Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, TIPC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

Co-authors

Prof. Junjie Wang (Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, TIPC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China) Prof. Yuan Zhou (Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, TIPC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

Presentation materials